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Patented May 3, 1904.

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ADOLF G. P. EBERT, OF ST. CLAIR, MICHIGAN.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,630, dated May 3, 1904.

Application filed August 14, 1903. Serial No. 169,421. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLF G. P. EBERT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing atSt. Clair, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in game apparatus, and has for its object to make an apparatus which shall be simple to operate, not liable to get out of order, and in which any number of players can play.

To this end the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central section through a game apparatus embodying my invention;

- Fig. 2, a plan view thereof; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 1 through a modified construction, and Fig. 4 a view showing method of operation.

A is the table; B, a circular fence capable of being folded into a small space when not in use; C, a series ofnumbered pans or receptacles, which may be of varying sizes, so that they can be nested when not in use; D, a bottle-shaped support adapted to form a central standard; E, a cylindrical receptacle of a size to slip over the body of a central standard, and F a transverse bar adapted to form a handhold and stop for the cylinder by engaging the neck of the standard.

Gr represents balls, preferably common marbles or dice, suitably marked or colored.

In practice the receptacle E is slipped over the standard D until the bar F engages the neck of the standard, and the marbles are then poured in, the numbered pans having been previously arranged in acircle about the standard and inside the fence. By suddenly lifting the receptacle the marbles will be caused to fall out inall directions in the form of a sprayand into the various pans, each marble in the pans counting according to the number of the pan in which it is contained. If desired, circles H may be provided for placing the pans equidistant from the center or for counting difierent, according to which Zone or belt the pans may be placed in. Numberless other changes or modifications may be made for counting, or the central standard may be made in the form of a castle, tower, or prison for better amusing the players.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown a modified construction in which the receptacle I is formed of a series of flat springs secured to a head J by soldering or otherwise and provided with a tubular socket K, adapted to he slipped over the neck of the standard to hold the receptacle in place, an elastic band L being slipped over the lower end of'the springs to form a receptacle open on top, and after the marbles are poured in the player removes the elastic by means of a pair of sticks or otherwise, as shown in Fig. I, when the marbles will fall out and into the pans, as before. Any system of counting may be usedfor eX- ample, the one getting the highest number after a certain number of turns or the one first making a predetermined number.

What I claim is In a game apparatus, the combination with a supporting-standard having a shoulder, of an open-ended receptacle having a transverse bar forming a stop to removably support the receptacle on the standard, balls or objects with which the game is to be played within said receptacle, a series of pans representing different values in proximity to the standard to receive the balls upon the removal of the receptacle and a fence surrounding the pans and standard.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

,ADOLF G. P. EBERT.

Witnesses:

OTTO F. BARTHEL, LEWIS E. FLANDERs. 

